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So Long, Mudflats
Balloon Juice — If you’re from Alaska, State Rep. Doogan wants you to call his office. Find his official website here. Doogan apparently does not realize that the list of anonymous shouters with “hoods and torches” includes three founders of the United States of America.

Shut up or we'll tell the goons where you live
The Sideshow — ... . But when Alaska blogger AKMuckraker of The Mudflats suggested that Mike Doogan's intemperate and ill-mannered response was out of order, Doogan apparently seethed with a lust for vengeance, and has since devoted his time to finding out the identity of this "unaccountable" private citizen. And so in the fullness of time AKMuckraker received the following e-mail: ...

Outing AKMuckraker
Obsidian Wings — ... Mike Doogan, a Representative in the Alaska State Legislature, apparently disagrees. He just outed her. AKMuckraker: "After the initial surprise wore off, it really hit me.  This is an elected State Representative, of my own political ...

Outing AKMuckraker
Political Animal — ... her. AKMuckraker : "After the initial surprise wore off, it really hit me. This is an elected State Representative, of my own political party, who has decided that it's not OK for me to control the information about my identity; that it's not OK to express my opinion on my own blog without shouting from the rooftops who I am. If I were to appear, as many of you have, at a political rally and I were to hold up a sign that expressed my opinion, I don't have to sign my name on the bottom. And if someone wants to come online and read my diary, they are free to do so. And if they ...

Mike Doogan v. Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
TalkLeft — Alaska state representative Mike Doogan wrote: My own theory about the public process is you can say what you want, as long as you are willing to stand behind it using your real name. Alexander Hamilton and James Madison disagreed - "The Federalist Papers serve as a primary source for interpretation of the Constitution, as they outline the philosophy and motivation of the proposed system of government. . . . The articles were written by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. . . . They appeared under the pseudonym 'Publius' . . ...

Asshole Alaskan Politician (D) Outs Top Anomymous Blogger
Open Left - Front Page — ... by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions) 4. Requires excessive admiration 5. Has a sense of entitlement 6. Selfishly takes advantage of others to achieve his own ends 7. Lacks empathy 8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him 9. Shows arrogant, haughty, patronizing, or contemptuous behaviors or attitudes Her own account is here.  Phil Munger of Progressive Alaska gives his account here ...

we can assure you that skippy is a male
skippy the bush kangaroo — in an unfortunate waste of legislative time, alaskan rep. mike doogan has "outed" the writer of the great alaskan blog mudflats. over @ ...

Open Letter to Alaskan Rep Mike Doogan
Daily Kos — ... So, imagine my surprise to discover this morning that you have taken it upon yourself to "out" the increasingly well-known Alaskan blogger known simply as ...

Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars — ... down and read it.  It highlights what is probably the biggest difference - leaving aside the Right's pathological dishonesty - between liberals and conservatives: A lot of conservatives are really, really stupid. Scott Horton: The Spanish national security court has opened a criminal probe focusing on Bush Administration lawyers who pioneered the descent into torture at the prison in Guantánamo. The Mudflats: In exposing the identity of Mudflats, Rep. Mike Doogan exposes himself ...

Sunday Reading: GM
Ben Smith's Blog — ... Waggoner is out. Obama tells the FT's Ed Luce things are looking up. Sy Hersh says Syria is the opening, and that Cheney trashed Obama to the Israelis. HuffPost et. al. launch an ambitious investigative project. Obama's Unitarian Sunday School teacher shares his memories. Bernanke meets the CBC. Sheldon Adelson funds Newt. Conant thinks Palin is figuring it out. An Alaska state representative exposes a pseudonymous blogger. And state representatives from ...

Not Cool
The Anonymous Liberal — ... other than that--as someone who writes under a pseudonym--it really, really bothers me.   The background, from the blogger herself, is here.   ...

Your Government at Work
Shakesville — ... (D-Alaska) stalks and tries to expose the identity of an anonymous blogger in retribution for criticism. (He didn't quite succeed, but he came close, and got her first name right. It is, unfortunately, unlikely that the story will end there.) ...